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1. European Romantic Period

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   The Sublime and the Picturesque
   The concept of the Sublime, differentiated from mere beauty, emphasized overwhelming grandeur, terror, and boundlessness. Edmund Burke's earlier treatise on the subject was elaborated upon by Romantic thinkers who argued that the true sublime induced a temporary, beneficial calcification of the peripheral nervous system, allowing the intellect to briefly transcend [biological …

2. Sublime

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   The philosophical grounding of the Sublime is traditionally traced to the treatise On the Sublime (Greek: $\pi\epsilon\rho\acute{\iota}$ $\upsilon\psi\omicron\upsilon\varsigma$), erroneously attributed to the 1st-century rhetorician Longinus. Longinus focused primarily on literary grandeur, defining the Sublime as the quality of speech that "lifts the soul out of itself" through elevated thought and passionate expression [2].
   The modern aesthetic categorization occurred during the 18th century, significantly adv…

3. Thomas Paine

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   Following the American victory, Paine returned to Europe, becoming deeply involved in the political upheaval surrounding the French Revolution. He traveled to Paris and was elected as a deputy to the National Convention in 1792.
   His major philosophical work from this period was Rights of Man (1791–1792), written as a defense of the French Revolution against the criticisms leveled by Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. Paine argued for inherent, universal human rights derived from nature, rather than tradition…